Quotes About Evaluation

Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

I don't usually read reviews. I usually read the interviews, just because I figure it's a good way to try to do them better if I ever have to do them again.

Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.

There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.

I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'

It is good for society to have this introspection.

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.

Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.

There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren't a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.

Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.

I've been beat up pretty badly. Pretty badly. Yet at the end of the day, everyone says I'm doing a pretty good job.

I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

I always pick what I consider to be good scripts.

I've always been a very good judge of people. That's why I like so very few of them.

I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.

I was convinced before the game that we had a very good chance but today was what you would call in Germany a blackout.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.